My identity has finally been revealed!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:22pm

And, holy crap, it turns out, I'm Camille Paglia!

On the Madonna Confessions Tour:

""... I wasn't thrilled with it. I simply wanted to see her --not be assaulted by an avalanche of pretentious, irrelevant images dizzily winking on giant screens. ... The lugubrious montage of doleful African orphans framing a glammed up Madonna as she reclined on her sparkly disco crucifix was too much by twenty miles."

On Brokeback Mountain:

""I don't think Brokeback Mountain is a great film. It's far too long, soggy, and monotonous, and its bleak portrait of small-town and working-class life is (in my indignant view) condescending and offensively elitist."

"I was steadily annoyed by the over-stylish, absurdly clean and unwrinkled clothes of the two leads (they looked like Ralph Lauren catalog models) and by the sexist stereotyping of their betrayed and increasingly unattractive wives."

"As for Jake Gyllenhaal, I found him initially intriguing, but all that smirky eyelash-batting began grating on me. By the second half, he had morphed (with the mustache and sideburns) into a Las Vegas-period Wayne Newton impersonator--hardly a macho role model. I found the sudden removal of Gyllenhaal's character from the script via a brutal gay-bashing simplistic and egregious--although no more so than the earlier bizarre mutilation-murder of an old gay man in a gully, which Ledger's character was improbably forced to narrate."

By the way, have you read my book, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems? It's fabulous, if I do say so myself.


[interview at outrate.net (via the DL)]

[DAME]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:25pm

Just helping along with a visual. No insult or dig intended.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:26pm

I think you found your soul mate!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:28pm

Looks like she, I mean I, used the same lighting people as Corine's visit to the Trump Grill.

[DAME]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:29pm

Perhaps even the same makeup guy.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:31pm

Red lips! You need red lips!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:31pm

I always suspected it.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:38pm

i knew it. namo's just never met the right man.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:38pm

Does Musto Alessandrini know?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:40pm

Now I understand the whole "ugliest BWW".

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:45pm

I never knew Camille Paglia liked tearooms...

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:46pm

Hot or not?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:48pm

i've always had a thing for camille. probably the unattainability of the lesbian. or the writing style.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:49pm

But OMG, if that's true...then all that really hot late-night cybersex we've been having...

I'VE BEEN HAVING CYBERSEX WITH A WOMAN?!?!?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:51pm

Iced in the summer, hot in the winter, Iflit.

I actually used to find Camille, I mean me, exasperating. More in the speaking style than the writing style. And of course, some of her stances were almost Ann Coulter-like in their patina of "Notice me! Did you hear what I just said? It was outrageous!"

Then I bought myself a copy of Break, Blow, Burn and could feel it engaging a part of my brain that had been a bit drowsy for a while. It's actually an invigorating read and I recommend it HIGHLY to everybody. I've given many copies as gifts.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:54pm

Will you sign my copy?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:56pm

Absolutely. I've signed many books I had nothing to do with in the past.

Oh yea, I even found a used signed copy of B,B,B for eight bucks at a used book store. Near mint. So I snagged that too.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:58pm

That's the way to screw yourself out of a royalty.
Updated On: 7/18/06 at 12:58 PM

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:02pm

Freakin' Lesbo Shill!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:05pm

Maybe I've a split personality and Camille is my "female side?"

I mean, what she wrote about the Madonna show is practically word for word what I wrote in an email to friends and in a DL post.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:15pm

I for one am so sick of appreciation threads - especially one created by the person themselves!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:22pm

I still think/hope you are Signorile. Yum!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:46pm

Namo, Camille isnt the female side of anything.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:51pm

No, it says right in the interview she's, I mean, I'm, a pro-sex pagan lesbian!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/18/06 at 1:56pm

Well, then, you are what you eat.